Airline News - Europe.Jul 9, 2007 Since 2000, all of the world's busiest international routes have been essentially smoke-free. Within the US, the government has banned in-flight smoking for almost two decades. With England about to become 'fug less', at least indoors, Smintair (Smokers' International Airways) founder Schoppmann is outspoken with his comments and attitude, with his website directed at potential airline customers. "I have been asked by different media, many times: Why are you against the smoking bans, as they can only enhance your business? My reply to that question is always: I put freedom before everything," he said. While claiming to encourage journalists to contact him he does not speak to everyone: " Mr Schoppmann refrains from taking part in live 'talk-shows' which are staged right from the start [and] paid by the broadcasting station Noun 1. broadcasting station - a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs broadcast station radio station - station for the production and transmission of AM or FM radio broadcasts , making a thorough discussion impossible," says his press office. In Schoppmann's view the ban on smoking is a dereliction dereliction n. 1) abandoning possession, which is sometimes used in the phrase "dereliction of duty." It includes abandoning a ship, which then becomes a "derelict" which salvagers can board. of his human rights. Puff your way to the Far East. In fact he expects the majority of passengers to originate from Japan. Jul 2, 2007 Aer Arann Aer Arann is a regional airline based in Dublin, Ireland. It operates scheduled and charter services to eight destinations in Ireland, two in France and ten in the United Kingdom, as well as Jersey. Aer Arann, the Irish regional airline, has launched a four-times weekly service between Galway and Newcastle, on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Previously the only way to Ireland's Atlantic west coast was via Dublin. At the same time, the airline and Galway Airport Galway Airport (IATA: GWY, ICAO: EICM), or Aerphort na Gaillimhe in Irish, is located at Carnmore about 6.5 kilometres (4 miles) from Galway city in Ireland and is managed by Corrib Airport Limited. have announced the creation of 30 new jobs as result of a major expansion at the airport. A new purpose built hangar has been built which will house a new engineering base for the carrier. Aer Arann has seen significant growth at Galway in the past few years and currently operates ten routes including Cork, Bristol, Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle and Lorient. Galway is the only major city on Ireland's far west coast and has a population of just 75,000. It is also the gateway to the Isles of Arran, after which the airline was named. Jun 26, 2007 Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde Air France has introduced a new baggage policy that it claims will allow passengers to achieve a 30% reduction on excess weight prices compared to current tariffs. The new scheme will allow customers booking flights online with Air France to buy extra weight in tranches of 5kg up to a maximum of 50kg, for 30% less than they would pay at the airport. Available from 30h up to 30min before the latest check-in, the passenger will be able to pay for excess baggage excess baggage n → exceso de equipaje excess baggage excess n → excédent m de bagages excess baggage excess n online, with the information then passed to the relevant airport desk. Air France applies what it terms a 'weight concept' for the majority of its services apart from those to the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Papeete, West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. , Cairo, Djibouti, Antananarivo, Havana, Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, pueblo, United States Santo Domingo (sän'tə dəmĭng`gō), pueblo (1990 pop. 2,866), Sandoval co., N central N.Mex., on the Rio Grande; founded c.1700 after earlier pueblos were destroyed by floods. and Punta Cana Punta Cana, named after a local cape, is a region in the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic. Covering about 4,200,000 m2 (approximately 1,100 acres), the region is home to a coastline of sandy white beaches and to a town of the same name. , where it has a 'piece concept' dictating the number of bags allowed. The weight concept generally allows two bags. Jun 26, 2007 Air France, Delta, KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) , Northwest, Skyteam Air France, Delta, KLM and Northwest that would create a comprehensive and integrated partnership among the four SkyTeam members across the Atlantic," Northwest said in a statement. "A more integrated SkyTeam alliance offers significant advantages to consumers, including more choice in flight schedules, travel times, services and fares." The carriers are attempting to take advantage of route opportunities made possible in the EU-US open skies  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . accord that goes into effect next year. Jun 29, 2007 Air France KLM From January this year, Air France KLM simplified their joint baggage structure into five zones, with areas one to four applying the weight concept and zone five carrying its own piece concept tariff. The former includes French and Dutch domestic services, short and long-haul European flights, North African North Africa A region of northern Africa generally considered to include the modern-day countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North African adj. & n. Adj. 1. , Caribbean and Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. flights, as well as those to the Middle East and Libya. Members of Air France's Frequent Flyer frequent flyer Hospital practice A popular term for a Pt who is regularly admitted to a particular ER or health care facility, for various reasons Programme - Flying Blue - benefit from extra baggage allowances. Silver card holders have 5kg extra, Gold, 10kg and Platinum, 20kg on top of the standard Economy, Business and First Class maximum of 20kg, 30kg and 40kg. Jun 26, 2007 Bmi Bmi to start Aberdeen mini-hub. Starting from July 30, services from Norwich, Manchester and London Heathrow, will connect into Aberdeen in time for the 10:25 flight to Kristiansand, arriving at 12:40. All UK morning flights arrive into Aberdeen with a relatively short connection time, although passengers transiting from Kristiansand to Norwich face a four and a half hour wait at Aberdeen. Jul 3, 2007 Bmi regional Bmi regional launching a promotion on six of its newest routes this summer, including Kristiansand, by offering a 25% discount on return business fares. Routes include Edinburgh-Zurich; Leeds-Bradford-Copenhagen; Leeds-Bradford-Lille; Aberdeen-Brussels; Aberdeen-Kristiansand and Manchester-Lyon. Jul 3, 2007 British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. British Airways will transfer flights from Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston Intercontinental from London Gatwick to Heathrow effective March 30. Daily DFW DFW Dallas/Ft Worth, TX, USA - Dallas Ft Worth International (Airport Code) DFW Department of Fish and Wildlife DFW David Foster Wallace DFW Drug-Free Workplace DFW Down For Whatever (song by Pretty Young Things) and twice-daily IAH IAH Institute for Animal Health (UK) IAH International Association of Hydrogeologists IAH International Association of Hypno-Analysts IAH International Association of Hydrologists IAH Is Anybody Home? service will be operated with Boeing 777s. Jun 28, 2007 Cimber Air Cimber Air is an airline based in Sønderborg, Denmark, operating scheduled domestic and international services in co-operation with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Lufthansa. Its main bases are Copenhagen Airport and Sønderborg Airport, with a hub at Billund Airport[1]. Cimber Air, the independently-owned Danish regional carrier, is extending its route network with the addition of a daily service between Billund in Jutland (west Denmark) and Berlin Tegel, commencing August 1st 2007 with a flight time of 65 minutes. The route to Berlin will be Cimber's 7th scheduled destination from Billund, Denmark's second international airport. The airline, founded in 1950 and still owned by the same family holding company, flies to the islands of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea Baltic Sea, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.163,000 sq mi (422,170 sq km), including the Kattegat strait, its northwestern extension. The Øresund, Store Bælt, and Lille Bælt connect the Baltic Sea with the Kattegat and Skagerrak straits, which lead to the on a seasonal basis, Bergen, Copenhagen, Munich, Oslo and Stockholm. Billund itself is something of a company town, the home of Lego and its massive theme park. The new route will be operated by a 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200 regional jet. The Sonderborg-based airline now has an 11-strong CRJ CRJ Canadair Regional Jet CRJ Chiropractic Research Journal CRJ Commission for Racial Justice CRJ Cylinder Reduction Jumper fleet, having acquired two more of the aircraft in May and June this year. The airline no longer flies for the Team Lufthansa regional alliance which has been abandoned. Cimber Air provides complimentary snacks and drinks on board. Jul 2, 2007 Estonian Air Estonian Air plans to reduce its weekly Tallinn-Paris Charles de Gaulle flights from four to three from Aug. 31 and its weekly Tallinn-Barcelona service from three to two from Sept. 26. It will suspend Tallinn-Barcelona flights Oct. 28-Feb. 16. Jul 3, 2007 Finnair Finnair will launch five-times-weekly Helsinki-Seoul Incheon service in June 2008 aboard Airbus A340-300s. It will be the airline's 11th Asian destination. Jun 27, 2007 Finnair Finnair, a member of oneworld, will launch its newest Indian route with flights to Mumbai. The city will be served non-stop from Helsinki five days a week with Airbus A340 aircraft. At the same time the airline's current thrice-weekly frequency to the Indian capital Delhi will be increased to daily. Jun 25, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa takes initiative with business only flights. Following well publicized plans by both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways to develop business class flights out of the US to Europe, Lufthansa is to introduce a Boeing 737 business class only flight from Frankfurt to Newark New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , from the start of the winter season on October 28. It will depart 08:15 and arrive 11:45 (local times), for those wishing to have meetings in the US. The return flight is scheduled for 15:55, touching down in Frankfurt the following day at 05:40. When fully reclined re·cline v. re·clined, re·clin·ing, re·clines v.tr. To cause to assume a leaning or prone position. v.intr. To lie back or down. , these provide an almost horizontal sleeping surface measuring two meters (6'6") in length, but the 737-700 aircraft used does not allow for fully flat beds - unlike British Airways and Virgin' 180 degree facilities. Thanks to the spacious layout of the cabin, passengers travel in an extremely quiet and relaxed atmosphere and can enjoy an individual in-flight service, more akin to first class than business class. With a small number of passengers on each flight, boarding and de-boarding times are short, as is (usually) customs and immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. . Jul 5, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa takes initiative with business only flight Following well publicised plans by both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways to develop business class flights out of the US to Europe, Lufthansa has come up with its own idea that may make the UK operators think again. Jul 4, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa will launch five-times-weekly Frankfurt-Orlando International service Oct. 30 aboard a new 221-seat Airbus A330-300. MCO MCO Managed care organization, see there will be its 20th North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. destination. Jul 2, 2007 Silverjet Silverjet will commence its second daily London Luton-Newark flight on July 31 and said it said it will announce the route for its third aircraft at the end of the month. Jul 4, 2007 SkySouth SkySouth, which will celebrate its first anniversary in July this year, provides frequent services to Caen, Le Havre and Le Touquet in northern France. It claims a 30-minute hassle free check-in and free parking within a few yards of the aircraft. Jun 26, 2007 SkySouth, Eurostar With the withdrawal of all air services from London Gatwick to Paris, and Eurostar relocating to north Kent from Ashford, SkySouth, a small regional commuter operator, is to introduce a twice daily service between Shoreham (Brighton City) Airport and Paris (Pontoise-Cormeilles) Airport from August. Starting on Wednesday August 1st 2007 flights will depart from Shoreham at 08:00 and 15:30 and from Paris at 10:40 and 18:10 (local time). All the Paris flights will be operated by a nine-seat Piper Navajo commuter aircraft with leather seats and club class legroom leg·room n. Room in which to stretch the legs while seated. legroom Noun space to move one's legs comfortably, as in a car legroom n → . Also used by Ryanair, Pontoise is just under 30 miles from the Etoille, or about 45 minutes (on a good day, traffic-wise). A dedicated coach link will be offered. Jun 26, 2007 Smintair Smintair (Smokers' International Airways) has moved a step further in its campaign to offer nervous passengers and nicotine addicts a gateway to the Far East. The airline has confirmed slots at both Nagoya and Dusseldorf airports for its first planned route. Conceived by German businessman, Alexander Schoppmann, the airline says that it plans to start services from the central Japan airport to Dusseldorf in October, although no actual introduction date has been confirmed. Jul 2, 2007 Smintair Smintair (Smokers' International Airways) will fly a pair of former South African Airways South African Airways (SAA) is South Africa's largest domestic and international airline company, with hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It is also known in Afrikaans as Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAL) Boeing 747s and with technical backing from Lufthansa, the airline will take the "business only" concept one stage further. The Boeing will have only 138 first class and business class seats. Smintair plans to have a lounge on the top deck of the aircraft and a cocktail bar serving oysters and caviar, plus a further lounge at the rear of the aircraft. There is, what is claimed to be, an advanced air-conditioning system on board, designed to keep the interior fresh. Jul 2, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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